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Thrombin receptor activating mutations. Alteration of an extracellular agonist recognition domain causes constitutive signaling.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 12 Jan 1996
Nanevicz T, Wang L, Chen M, Ishii M, Coughlin S R
Abstract excerpt
Constitutively active thrombin receptors were generated while constructing chimeric receptors to identify the structural basis for thrombin receptor agonist specificity. Substitution of eight amino acids from the Xenopus receptor's second extracellular loop (XECL2B) for the cognate sequence in the human thrombin receptor was sufficient to confer robust constitutive activity. Smaller substitutions within the...
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